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(True Story!) Karla Faye Tucker - Set Free: Life & Faith on Death Row (PB/FC)

This gripping story about the first woman executed in Texas in over 100 years and shows how God used a remarkable woman to reach countless lives with a message of redemption and joy.

The marriage of her parents was very troubled, and Tucker started smoking cigarettes with her sisters when she was 8 years old. Her parents divorced when she was 10.

By age 12, she had begun taking drugs and having sex. She dropped out of school at age 14 and followed her mother Carolyn, a rock groupie, into prostitution and began traveling with the ALLMAN BROTHERS Band, The MARSHALL TUCKER Band, and the EAGLES. When she was in her early 20s, she began hanging out with bikers, and met a woman named Shawn Dean and her husband Jerry Dean. The couple introduced her to a man named Daniel Ryan Garrett. Then 21 years old, Tucker started dating 35-year-old Garrett.

After spending the weekend using drugs, Tucker and Garrett entered Jerry Dean's apartment intending to steal a motorcycle that Dean was restoring in his apartment.

During the burglary, Tucker and Garrett entered Dean's bedroom, where Tucker sat on him. In an effort to protect himself, Dean grabbed Tucker above the elbows, whereupon Garrett intervened. Garrett struck Dean numerous times in the back of the head with a ball-peen hammer he found on the floor. The blows Garrett had dealt Dean caused him to begin making a "gurgling" sound. Tucker wanted to "stop him from making that noise" and she then picked up a three foot pickax laying against the wall and began hitting Dean.

Tucker only then noticed a woman who had hidden under the bed covers against the wall. Tucker proceeded to hit Thornton repeatedly with the pickaxe and then embedded the axe in her heart. Tucker would later tell people and testify that she experienced intense multiple ***** with each blow of the pickaxe.

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